Cassini's Huygens Probe Rendezvous with Titan

im333mfg writes "Tonight at 7:08pm PST, the Cassini spacecraft will be releasing the much anticipated Huygens Probe for a rendezvous with the Saturn moon Titan. It will be making a 22 day journey to the moon, and end up entering the atmosphere sometime on January 14th. 'Titan is one of the remaining puzzles of the solar system - while Cassini's imaging cameras and radar instrument have begun to reveal the details of its surface, the Huygens probe will be the first spacecraft to venture beneath Titan's thick clouds.'"

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Re:Colonize

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like you've been visiting "plants" all afternoon.

Re:discuss this on irc

[WizardRahl]

* Now talking in #space
* Topic is 'Please keep the JPLers killed or injured in (DEC 8th) car accident in your thoughts and prayers. Please see http://tinyurl.com/63d7h for details. The Opportunity publications from Science magazine are available at http://homepage.mac.com/yuriwho/op1.pdf through op15.pdf'
* Set by SOC-Pandelirium on Thu Dec 16 03:55:52
-ChanServ- [#space] Welcome to space.
-Huygens- WizardRahl: Welcome to #space, make yourself comfortable... Type !countdown for the next Cassini-Huygens encounter. Type !recap for a recap of channel activity. Other channels of interest: #space_politics #Spaceshipone #xprize . Web sites of interest: http://foxcheck.org . This is a Family Oriented Channel. Swearing is not tolerated.
<WizardRahl> who play's jean luc's character in star trek TNG?
<WizardRahl> anyone know?
<DanTekGeek> oh god
<DanTekGeek> i know
<DanTekGeek> um
<DanTekGeek> PATRICK STUART!
<DanTekGeek> thats it
<DEChengst> Steward ?\
<DEChengst> tea, earl grey, hot !
<yuriwho-ha> make it so!

News from Titan

[mahesh_gharat]

In the realted news from Titanian reporter:
Titanians have detected the very much possibility of an earth satellite colliding with their planet and they have demanded the government funding to detect such disasters and avoid the damage in the future.

In other related news from Titanian reporter:
Titan weather department is planning the weather baloon tests on coming 14th Jan.

Re:I never learned to read

[Ilan Volow]

When I first saw the headline I read it as "space probe uses jupiter moon to help reverse-engineer Apple networking technology".

I probably made such an interpretation because I've spent three months trying to create an XGrid interoperability layer in python only to be continually thwarted by strange undocumented stuff. At this point, misusing heavenly bodies for personal gain doesn't sound like such a bad idea.